So how many times did you do that ? You think EVERY impression is served by one server without some sort of front end load balancer ?
news.bbc.co.uk is an alias for newswww.bbc.net.uk newswww.bbc.net.uk has address 212.58.226.19 newswww.bbc.net.uk has address 212.58.226.44 newswww.bbc.net.uk has address 212.58.226.50
But maybe "yes" people are generally happier and "no" people generally more miserable!
Most probably because the "yes" people were just relaxing and following the goverment, where the "no" people had to fight against the goverment's mentality
I'd be willing to bet that you have your numbers the wrong way around. http://toolbar.netcraft.com/stats/topsites?s=1#1 shows that news.bbc.co.uk is the 9th most popular site with/. as 32nd. Also most of the additional content (pictures, audio & video clips) is part of the bbc site, just served by other servers in the same netblock (aka they have servers that do most of the web page & text with others providing non-text elements)./. is only text (all pictures (ads) are served by external servers) so would serve even less in terms of BW.
It would be rather scary if they tried to apply the same thinking to civil cases as to criminal cases
But haven't they pushed through laws that make this illegal ? How else are they getting the FBI to issue the terrorism type soupena's against ISP's for details if it's only civil.
How long before we see some spamcop like site for reporting phising (sp?) sites ?
I know I've had varing degrees of success with dealing with some of the scams I've recieved in the email. I think the quickest I've had was getting the site removed within 1 hour (of me getting the email advertising it).
The problem is getting sites in places like Russia etc removed. It's a case of Email through a server in china, whois info has an address in Brazil and the site is hosted in an ex-eastern block country.
While I do like your wasting their time and potentially helping them get caught by supplying false data, I would have to say becareful.
A bunch of places get really annoyed if you supply false CC information (or so they say). Just becareful that the generating false CC numbers don't get you in trouble
I'd love to see the court documents of one of these scam sites trying to take hackers to court.
"Yes your honour I was running a phising site, but those dirty hackers defaced it before I could steel enough credit card details to maintain my mistresses lifestyle"
a more interesting question is howmany downloaded this expecting it to be as bad as the previous 2 saw that it was watch able and so went (or are going to go) to the cinema where they wouldn't have before.
From what I've seen (in news footage / documentries etc) harriers hover beside the ship, once they match the forward speed & direction) they move sideways over the deck and then down.
The VAST majority of crap bundled with Windows is just applications which run on the OS
Most of what is on windows update is considered part of the OS by M$.
While I'd normally agree that they are just apps, when M$ moves them into the OS and testifies they are part of the OS, then they are OS components and no longer apps.
What part of the "This service cannot be used for 911 calls" did the users not understand.
Most VOIP providers have stated in their contracts that the service can't be used for emergency calls because of location issues (aka you can be logged in form another country).
Now they are being forced to provide 911. How many 911 calls will go to the wrong call center due to reasons like people moving but not updating their contact details, or someone logged into the voip service at their friends place, or even "Well we provide 911 but all calls are handled by the call center closest to our HQ"
While I agree that firstdirect's method is secure, I'd also have to say it is overly complex for the average user.
Your online password is different than your phone one. Your username is a random number. You can only use letters & numbers. If you enter your password wrong 3 times in a row you lock yourself out (and it can be seperated by days) and they have a password history so you can't use a farmiliar password once it's been locked out.
In short they are saying you must write your password down. I work in IT, I have for years, but I've locked myself out more times than I care to count. My usual procedure to get to my online banking is as follows. Ring them up and get them to reset my password. Enter new soon to be forgotten password. Do what I need with my banking , lock myself out a day later when I need to do more online banking. Rinse & Repeat
While yes I do agree a liability exists with closed source (or more accurately commercial products instead of free ones), I'd argue that the liability differs significantly.
Few (if any) open source projects patent software. The reason for this is typically costs or principals, because of this they don't have the same defence that most commercial companies with a large number of patents have and hence the ability to cross licence.
This obviously isn't a defence against those companies that just patent stuff so they can sue later. And this will always be more expensive.
I do however agree that the entire problem is the patent system.
The real question is why would you need extra hardware to do this ?
I think most people admit that most games are going to be run on a M$ Windows desktop. So why not just have a service pack that adds a content rating to a users profile.
Assuming the children's accounts aren't running as administrators, and they don't have the administrator password then all that is needed is the software manufacturers to query the rating in the user profile.
But hey in the real world here, when kids are typically the only ones who know how to operate the pc and increasingly are user accounts so the parents don't break the computer (assuming it's not in their bedrooms).
This is kinda a pointless exercise You can already get cracks to bypass a game's serial / activation etc. How long after this would there be cracks to bypass content controls
The problem in this case is the 'bloat' that the kernel is being accused of getting is driver support.
Last I knew there were always new pieces of hardware coming onto the market with people wanting to use the fancy new hardware. and lets not forget all the existing hardware they people are reverse engineering to write drivers without manufacturers help for
Going to the trouble of removing sections from the kernel would only bring us back to the days when it was quite difficult to get all your hardware working and you had to search for drivers.
If you're going to run a typical "server" for a business then a 20-50mb download isn't that much. combine it with it's source so you can build a different kernel for each server (if needed).
Yes there are large sections if the kernel I've never touched (and I doubt I ever would), but I for one still want to see it in the source.
Then this standard could be supported by as many open source, and maybe even commercial projects as possible.
You mean like HTML, Java etc ?
It would be wonderful if MS would play nice; they don't have too, but we don't have to play their game either.
You're joking right ? M$ Playing nice ? You mean how they played nice with HTML or Java ?
Sorry I can't think of any other examples off the top of my head where they didn't their embrace & extend to forcefully push out competition. With the above two they are argueably more subtle
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Does Jenny ever get to go home ? looks like she's working that entire week 24/7
So how many times did you do that ?
You think EVERY impression is served by one server without some sort of front end load balancer ?
news.bbc.co.uk is an alias for newswww.bbc.net.uk
newswww.bbc.net.uk has address 212.58.226.19
newswww.bbc.net.uk has address 212.58.226.44
newswww.bbc.net.uk has address 212.58.226.50
That's from the different DNS servers.
But maybe "yes" people are generally happier and "no" people generally more miserable!
Most probably because the "yes" people were just relaxing and following the goverment, where the "no" people had to fight against the goverment's mentality
I'd be willing to bet that you have your numbers the wrong way around. /. as 32nd. /. is only text (all pictures (ads) are served by external servers) so would serve even less in terms of BW.
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/stats/topsites?s=1#1 shows that news.bbc.co.uk is the 9th most popular site with
Also most of the additional content (pictures, audio & video clips) is part of the bbc site, just served by other servers in the same netblock (aka they have servers that do most of the web page & text with others providing non-text elements).
It would be rather scary if they tried to apply the same thinking to civil cases as to criminal cases
But haven't they pushed through laws that make this illegal ?
How else are they getting the FBI to issue the terrorism type soupena's against ISP's for details if it's only civil.
How long before we see some spamcop like site for reporting phising (sp?) sites ?
I know I've had varing degrees of success with dealing with some of the scams I've recieved in the email. I think the quickest I've had was getting the site removed within 1 hour (of me getting the email advertising it).
The problem is getting sites in places like Russia etc removed. It's a case of Email through a server in china, whois info has an address in Brazil and the site is hosted in an ex-eastern block country.
While I do like your wasting their time and potentially helping them get caught by supplying false data, I would have to say becareful.
A bunch of places get really annoyed if you supply false CC information (or so they say).
Just becareful that the generating false CC numbers don't get you in trouble
I'd love to see the court documents of one of these scam sites trying to take hackers to court.
"Yes your honour I was running a phising site, but those dirty hackers defaced it before I could steel enough credit card details to maintain my mistresses lifestyle"
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a more interesting question is howmany downloaded this expecting it to be as bad as the previous 2 saw that it was watch able and so went (or are going to go) to the cinema where they wouldn't have before.
From what I've seen (in news footage / documentries etc) harriers hover beside the ship, once they match the forward speed & direction) they move sideways over the deck and then down.
The VAST majority of crap bundled with Windows is just applications which run on the OS
Most of what is on windows update is considered part of the OS by M$.
While I'd normally agree that they are just apps, when M$ moves them into the OS and testifies they are part of the OS, then they are OS components and no longer apps.
In most places that's how you get rid of employees.
It's easier to ask them to resign and give them a glowing reference than fire them and face potential legal battles later
Even if it means a database of IP address to geographic location mappings
What about ISP's that give dynamic addresses to Cable / DSL ?
Or maybe someone who runs their own asterisk box for family / friends and all calls go out using only 1 account ?
The solution is much easier. Simply pipe all 911 calls to the call center serviced by the VOIP provider.
Let that call center deal with the problem.
I know it's a really bad solution, but this is a really bad regulation
What part of the "This service cannot be used for 911 calls" did the users not understand.
Most VOIP providers have stated in their contracts that the service can't be used for emergency calls because of location issues (aka you can be logged in form another country).
Now they are being forced to provide 911. How many 911 calls will go to the wrong call center due to reasons like people moving but not updating their contact details, or someone logged into the voip service at their friends place, or even "Well we provide 911 but all calls are handled by the call center closest to our HQ"
Most countries prostitution is legal, it's just that solicitation is the crime.
aka you can sell it, but you can't advertise it
While I agree that firstdirect's method is secure, I'd also have to say it is overly complex for the average user.
Your online password is different than your phone one. Your username is a random number. You can only use letters & numbers. If you enter your password wrong 3 times in a row you lock yourself out (and it can be seperated by days) and they have a password history so you can't use a farmiliar password once it's been locked out.
In short they are saying you must write your password down. I work in IT, I have for years, but I've locked myself out more times than I care to count. My usual procedure to get to my online banking is as follows. Ring them up and get them to reset my password. Enter new soon to be forgotten password. Do what I need with my banking , lock myself out a day later when I need to do more online banking. Rinse & Repeat
While yes I do agree a liability exists with closed source (or more accurately commercial products instead of free ones), I'd argue that the liability differs significantly.
Few (if any) open source projects patent software. The reason for this is typically costs or principals, because of this they don't have the same defence that most commercial companies with a large number of patents have and hence the ability to cross licence.
This obviously isn't a defence against those companies that just patent stuff so they can sue later. And this will always be more expensive.
I do however agree that the entire problem is the patent system.
The real question is why would you need extra hardware to do this ?
I think most people admit that most games are going to be run on a M$ Windows desktop. So why not just have a service pack that adds a content rating to a users profile.
Assuming the children's accounts aren't running as administrators, and they don't have the administrator password then all that is needed is the software manufacturers to query the rating in the user profile.
But hey in the real world here, when kids are typically the only ones who know how to operate the pc and increasingly are user accounts so the parents don't break the computer (assuming it's not in their bedrooms).
This is kinda a pointless exercise You can already get cracks to bypass a game's serial / activation etc. How long after this would there be cracks to bypass content controls
Water conducts heat about 25 times more efficently than air.
uname -r
2.6.8
uptime
02:18:09 up 83 days,
I did a hardware upgrade the previous uptime I had was on a 2.4 kernel and was over 400 days.
I've had various apps crash, but not the entire box.
The problem in this case is the 'bloat' that the kernel is being accused of getting is driver support.
Last I knew there were always new pieces of hardware coming onto the market with people wanting to use the fancy new hardware. and lets not forget all the existing hardware they people are reverse engineering to write drivers without manufacturers help for
It may be easier to transport but you've got everything in memory instead of only the bits you need
/boot and /lib/modules ?
What's so hard about creating a sub directory that contains the additions to
Untar it in / and now you've got a kernel and modules (granted you have to have a kernel that will run your hardware, or an initrd
Going to the trouble of removing sections from the kernel would only bring us back to the days when it was quite difficult to get all your hardware working and you had to search for drivers.
If you're going to run a typical "server" for a business then a 20-50mb download isn't that much. combine it with it's source so you can build a different kernel for each server (if needed).
Yes there are large sections if the kernel I've never touched (and I doubt I ever would), but I for one still want to see it in the source.
Then this standard could be supported by as many open source, and maybe even commercial projects as possible.
You mean like HTML, Java etc ?
It would be wonderful if MS would play nice; they don't have too, but we don't have to play their game either.
You're joking right ? M$ Playing nice ? You mean how they played nice with HTML or Java ?
Sorry I can't think of any other examples off the top of my head where they didn't their embrace & extend to forcefully push out competition. With the above two they are argueably more subtle